Reconceptualizing Lifespan Development through a Hindu Perspective

Bridging Cultural and Developmental Approaches to Psychology: New Syntheses in Theory, Research, and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Saraswathi, T S ^a   Mistry, Jayanthi ^b   Dutta, Ranjana ^c  

^a M S UNIVERSITY OF BARODA   (India)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture and development; Dharma; Dialectical processes; Hindu lifespan development; Hindu worldview; Individualism in collectivism; Karma; Relational metatheory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258538     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195383430.003.0013     Document Type: Chapter

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